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The village is called Mount of Zeal. It’s built in a bowl like an amphitheatre, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below ... Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bring with them brutal consequences ... Susan Hill is an exceptional writer at the height of her powers. Every word is precisely right: the descriptions of the village and the pit, the people and the farm are exact and true; the heartbreak is inevitable yet new; and the imagery and imagination take your breath away.
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Review:
"Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece" (Sunday Mirror)
"Compulsively readable" (Irish Examiner)
"Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story" (Daily Mail)
"Beautifully, even lovingly, told" (Scotsman)
"There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story" (Guardian)
"Gripping all the way to its unexpected end" (Simon Baker Spectator)
"A perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives" (Observer)
"Hill's beautiful, soulful descriptions of pit village life make this every bit as gripping as her longer spine-chilling stories" (Sunday Mirror)
"In this taught, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction, everyone longs to escape... Ted is thoughtful, compassionate, loving and misguidedly chivalrous... The sparseness of Hill's style provides the perfect medium for exploring his predicament" (East Anglian Daily Times)
"Hill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives" (Stylist)
Review:
"Compulsively readable" (Irish Examiner)
"Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story" (Daily Mail)
"Beautifully, even lovingly, told" (Scotsman)
"There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story" (Guardian)
"Gripping all the way to its unexpected end" (Simon Baker Spectator)
"A perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives" (Observer)
"Hill's beautiful, soulful descriptions of pit village life make this every bit as gripping as her longer spine-chilling stories" (Sunday Mirror)
"In this taught, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction, everyone longs to escape... Ted is thoughtful, compassionate, loving and misguidedly chivalrous... The sparseness of Hill's style provides the perfect medium for exploring his predicament" (East Anglian Daily Times)
"Hill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives" (Stylist)
'Powerful ... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece.' (The Sunday Mirror)
'There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story.' (The Guardian)
'Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story.' (The Daily Mail)
'There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story.' (The Guardian)
'Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story.' (The Daily Mail)
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- PublisherChivers
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 147136433X
- ISBN 13 9781471364334
- BindingHardcover
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